Document Type

Article

Language

eng

Format of Original

11 p.

Publication Date

2016

Publisher

Information Processing Society of Japan

Source Publication

Journal of Information Processing

Source ISSN

1882-6652

Original Item ID

DOI: 10.2197/ipsjjip.24.598

Abstract

Accurate symptom of cancer patient in regular basis is highly concern to the medical service provider for clinical decision making such as adjustment of medication. Since patients have limitations to provide self-reported symptoms, we have investigated how mobile phone application can play the vital role to help the patients in this case. We have used facial images captured by smart phone to detect pain level accurately. In this pain detection process, existing algorithms and infrastructure are used for cancer patients to make cost low and user-friendly. The pain management solution is the first mobile-based study as far as we found today. The proposed algorithm has been used to classify faces, which is represented as a weighted combination of Eigenfaces. Here, angular distance, and support vector machines (SVMs) are used for the classification system. In this study, longitudinal data was collected for six months in Bangladesh. Again, cross-sectional pain images were collected from three different countries: Bangladesh, Nepal and the United States. In this study, we found that personalized model for pain assessment performs better for automatic pain assessment. We also got that the training set should contain varying levels of pain in each group: low, medium and high.

Comments

Published version. Journal of Information Processing, Vol. 24, No. 4 (2016): 598-608. DOI. © 2016 Information Processing Society of Japan. Used with permission.

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